Get ready your Vmware infrastructure for 6 or more core processors

For quite some time Intel and AMD has released 6 core processors and their cost has gone down. You should evaluate your server infrastructure carefully if you need to buy these new 6 core or more powered servers.

From my own experience, CPU resources are not the bottleneck for most of the applications we are running on Vmware vSphere – it’s performance is great and CPUs are fast nowadays. We are usually running out of the RAM with our vSphere 4 ESXi servers and thus, recommend a minimum of 128GB RAM for Vmware Enterprise license powered servers and at least 64GB for Vmware Standard Edition license powered servers. The more RAM you can get for the servers (please see RAM limitations per server below) the more you will save in Vmware license cost and yearly support plans.